On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:17:04PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System) > > package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS', > > but got a long list of unrelated results. I've found GRASS on > > freshmeat, but there doesn't appear to be .deb available. > > IMA (www.ima.sp.gov.br) is currently sponsoring the packaging of some GIS > related software, but I hear MapServer and GRASS are f***** painful to > package, and a major mess of dependencies, too.
GRASS is easy enough to build from source (probably easier than dealing with binaries). There've been some recent experimental debs, but I don't know the status of them currently. Anyway, most of the dependencies can easially be met in woody/unstable. You might want to grab libgeotiff and libgdal from remotesensing.org... It's true, GRASS is somewhat difficult to package (this is changing...). GRASS is best for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't quite "there" yet. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
